Sword and shield., 1887-05-07
NO. 1e.

H
gShleld making 10 further attack or,
ahim, it became generally understood
sthat the danger Of difficulty had
spassed, and Mr.. Gambrell was thrown
soff his guard.
From the evidence before the Coro-
sner's jury, we are not disposed to state
as a positive fact who were the parties
besides Col. Hamilton engaged in the
murder, but the persons against whom
an affidavit has been made out, are
L. NJ. Eubanks, J. W. AIbrecht, w.
Figures, and Bill Hardy, who is a
znegro, two of these men being
directly in the employ of Col. Hanil-
! ton, and the others his close friends
and Mr.. Gambrell's enemies.
Without adducing the terrible evl-
sdence of the State, We get the following
facts actually from the sworn testimo-
my of the accused at the Coroner's
&jury, the most important admissions
Ebeing wrung from them after long
questioning.
For several days prior to the killing,
"a watchhad been kept up by Eabank
sand others upon the movements of
1 Mr.. Gambrell and his father, and re-
8ports thereof were made TO Col. Ham
silton. Thus according TO Eubank's
Testimony, he reported to Hamilton,
Ethe leaving of Mr.. Gambrells father
supon Thursday night-thus he reported.
Ito him that that fellow" (by which
aterm he says they were accustomed to
Prefer to Roderick Gambrell, when
speaking Of his movements had gone
West Thursday morning about eleven
sor twelve o'clock-that on that night
Hamilton sent for him to 60 to the Va
M. train coming from the West, that
shaving gone to West Jackson about
shalf past eight, he and Hamilton were
sthere talking and drinking with the
sOther parties accused, until the whistle
sof the train upon which it is proven
Ethat Mr.. Gambrell arrived from Clin-
lton) that he and Hamilton went to the
sdepot, Hamilton gqing close IN 10 the
strain, and not meeting and speaking
1 to any of the arriving passengers that
she and Hamilton and Hardy, the dri-
zver, Immediately came on III the carr
sriage TO the bridge about quarter Of
"a mile, where the tragedy occurred.
4 1T is also shown from the testimony
sof the different parties accused, that
after they had all been conversing to-
sgether for some time that night, they
some Of them going to the
train and watching-that after the ar
rival of train, somehow they all imme-
#diately went to the bridge-so some in the
.carriage-s some on foot-that they all
happened to arrive at the bridge at the
right moment for some to be Just in
front, and Others behind and at his
side, when Roderick Gambrell set foot
upon the bridge, and yet they claim
that tie doomed bo. there all alone
and SURROUNDED. by lis declared ene-
mics, attempted, without provocatioD,
to xii Jones Hamilton all engirdled by
MS friends and employees.
f'These men all lived in different por-
tions OF the city, and not one has given
u reasonable reason for having been
there at that time-Gambrell alone of
them all being on his way home from
business.
Aud all this-this watching the boy
and his parents b. the accused-their
talking together and separating and
meeting by different ways at the
critical moment, when the boy who
had ftarlessly exposed them reached
the loneliest spot on his homeward
way-the fact that he had no injury to
ayenge and was utterly alone-that
one of the. wounds ia the dead
boys body entered him from the right,
another from his left and the other
straight from his front-that the whole
statement of these men that there was
a carriage there at the time of the
is utterly demolished, and
swept away by overwhelming testimo-
ny-aftcr the first shot there came pier
cling cry of murder not uttered by any
of the accused-the fact that the most
intelligent witness and one with most
yeracity, with others,
saw the flashes of three different pistols
toward one spot where the
boy was found-that after having
started off, one of them came back and
crushed in his skull, thus robhing hin
Of even the few moments of life III
which he might have spoken-all these
facts glare and glare at US as ghastly
is ROderick GambFelps. wide and
tltath-glazed eyes glared up at the sky
On that fatal night glare at US III
awful accusation against these men,
and utter the cry Of murder! mur-
lprn, as loud and shrill as that last
youized shrek Of the murdered boy.